The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-05-06
THE LONE sTAR STATE.

THE LONE STAR STATE.
An interesting letter from the Rev, chas.
F, Smith, formerly Of Magnolia.
Mr.. EDIToR:--It the GAZETTE
can publish one letter a year from
the undersigned and still have Il
pleasant existence, here is the
one for 'S7.
A year ago | said to your read
ers that Mississippian who had
a home and was making living,
had better not sell it for the I'M
certainties of Texas. I'm still of
that opinion East Texas is con-
sidered almost no Texas, and vet
very many came here from west
ern part of the State, last fall. a.
few years ago there were great
numbers of people who went into
certain western sections for the
purpose of farming. They were
known to be dly sections. but
many are made to believe when a
country is setlledit will rain more.
vi course in this they believe what
has not, and what will not be true.
Living in a country, cultlvating a
country etc. ETC., does not cause
It to rain, our belief to contrary.
Far in the west, in the midst
of ono of these new settlements, q
town grew from nothing to 1000
inhabitants, in one year. On Mon.
day the town was laid off; on the
following Sunday, services were
held in beautiful new church.
But can these settlements and
towns remain? BY them the
stock business has been very much
damaged, and farming is not, so
far, a success.
Good crops were made 10 east
Texas last year, but rain is much
needed now.
Our sister county, Sabine is in
tronble. A dozen Rangers estate
ofiicers) have spent almost a year
looking for certain citizens who
had taken the law in their own
hands. Recently the Rangers
found them, in camp. A fight
took place, in which one Ranger
was killed and three wounded,
while the other parties (four in
number)escap with tbe loss Of l
man. | do not know, Mr.. Editor,
that this paragraph is good for the
newspaper, or rather for the read
ers; but want to state the cause
OF this trouble and the results, SO
far as known to me.
1t began some Is years ago,
over a few hogs that were stolen.
But, j believe, no serious trouble
occurred till perhaps two years
since, when a man was found dead
murdered. Now the whole re-
suits to date are these: four men
killed. three wounded, eight in
the penitenclary, several others
yet to go. The three men who
are at large, win hardly be taken
alive, but should they, never would
a trial take place. Nor is this all.
Most ofthese men haze families.
II is stated that not less than
seyenty-fye women and children
are left without the necessaries Of
life.
Texas on the 4th of August.
will vote on the Prohibition
Amendment. Present indications
are that the campaign, with ths
additional heat Of July and Au
gust, will be hot ir the superIatiys
degree. 1t has not been knowr
till very recently that any Of th,
leading politicians favored Prohi.
bition. This new knowledp,
comes greatly to the relief of on,
class and as much to the disap.
pointment of the other. Th,
Mogol of the whisky side Is ex
Lieut.. Coy. Gibbs, a MississippiaI
l believe, and from the papers
see he has been Greenhacxer
but he is fighting Prohibition be
cause it means destruction t,
democratic principles. Gibb',
righe-band man Is Hon. Are
Cochran, an ex-Rcpublican candi
date for Governor.
The last Democratic State c3n
yention declared Prohibition
non-partisan question, and that
man could be Democrat and b,